Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 2, 2026
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, and he wrote this sentence in an opinion piece. It was kind of shocking to see it. He said for the last two weeks or so I have been carrying around an anger bordering on rage regarding the chunk of Americans eligible to receive the vaccine who continued to refuse it. Have you seen that? I don't think I've run into anybody who would admit to having rage about unvaccinated people. Are you seeing t…

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ht. Now when we're talking about vaccine persuasion you convince me to be more skeptical. All right. That's it for today. I just wanted to see if I would change any minds. It looks like some of you did change your minds. Generally persuasion does not change everybody right away. A really strong persuasion would get five percent of the audience. That would be remarkable. If you could swing five percent of an audience with persuasion you'd be the best persuader of all time.

Well I'm looking at your comments and I see them. No, anecdotal evidence of existing vaccines being safe isn't a thing. There's no way you could capture problems just by looking at people and saying oh this guy's got a headache and he got vaccinated and this other guy doesn't have a headache. Oh but he got vaccinated too. So you really couldn't tell.

All right. That's all for now. I'll talk to you tomorrow.